Yondu’s Future And A Shot Of Kurt Russell In Today’s News From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’

We have two new minor pieces of news for fans who can’t get enough of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2‘ before the film’s May release and they involve Kurt Russell (‘Death Proof’,’The Thing’) and Michael Rooker (‘The Walking Dead’,’Jumper’)! We already know that Rooker will be reprising his role as Yondu, or Star-Lord’s friend and adoptive father from the first ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ while Russell is set to play Ego the Living Planet who appears to be Star-Lord’s actual father unless director James Gunn has been trolling us all though now have new details of each.

Both of these might be considered spoilers so I’ll give you a moment to turn back now if you’d like:

We don’t know much about how the cinematic iteration of Ego the Living Planet is going to stack up quite yet, and his first look had been through an early shot of his toy. Toys seem to be the major spoilers for films these days, and now packaging for said toy gives us an even better look at Russell which you can see right here:

So I’m still not sure how the whole Ego the Living Planet portion is going to play out here. Does he have an Avatar he remotely controls or does he, in fact, turn from a planet into a humanoid? We’ll be finding out in a few months.

Next up on the spoiler details is from Michael Rooker’s Instagram feed. While he might just be rocking some swag that Marvel Studios gave him, my money is it is from him being part of the cast of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and not because he was randomly in Georgia hanging out on set.

Now, at this time Rooker hasn’t officially been announecd as being part of the cast so while on some set for an unknown movie the others in the pictures had to hide their face and he needed to have tape on his hat:

Yes, I’m sure this isn’t an unofficial announcement or anything. Specially when during the same time frame where ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ is well done filming and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ is in full on production he shared this shot:

While there is no announcement at this time it does look like Yondu has joined the Fricken Guardians of the Galaxy as Baby Groot said in a recent trailer and will be accompanying Star-Lord when things go down against Thanos.

Are you looking forward to ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’? Happy to hear that Yondu will survive the events of the film and looks to be joining ‘Avengers: Infinity War’? Share your thoughts below True Believers!

Stuart Conover is an author, blogger, and all around geek. When not busy being a father and husband he tries to spend as much time as possible immersed in comic books, science fiction, and horror! Would you like to know more? Follow him on Twitter!

Stuart Conover

Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time, he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!Want to talk about anything geeky? Reach out on Twitter - @StuartConover